Matti, I have used the Tech Manager with three of my computers. On one, a laptop, I just use the built in parallel port. I did have to reset the port to the EPP mode. I just finished building a 650mhz AMD Athlon machine with a mother board that supports one ISA card which I use for a second parallel port. The other machine uses PCI slots for everything although the parallel port is on the motherboard. All of the computers have worked fine with the Tech Manager. I don't see why the Tech Manager would care where the LPT port was located. I'm sure it would work OK.